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Jayaraman cofounded the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/\">Restaurant Opportunities Centers (now ROC-United)\u003c/a> with Mamdouh, and she hasn't stopped thinking about the working conditions and wages of restaurant workers ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58677\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/saruhighres1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/saruhighres1000.jpg\" alt=\"The daughter of Indian immigrants, Saru Jayaraman, represents disadvantaged restaurant workers. Photo: Sekou Luke\" width=\"1000\" height=\"632\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58677\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The daughter of Indian immigrants, Saru Jayaraman, represents disadvantaged restaurant workers. 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(Irony alert: Batali's restaurants have been lauded for their Slow Food sensibility and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/05/30/should-sustainability-be-a-factor-in-restaurant-food/\">sustainable practices\u003c/a>, as BAB has noted.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the director of \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/staff/jayaraman.shtml\">UC Berkeley's Food Labor Research Center\u003c/a>, Jayaraman has written a book, \u003ca href=\"http://thewelcometable.net/behind-the-kitchen-door/\">\u003cem>Behind the Kitchen Door\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, exposing the dirty little secret of exploited restaurant employees and the successful campaigns ROC-United has waged in securing a better work environment for these workers, many of whom are immigrants and people of color. Helping the disadvantaged is nothing new to Jayaraman: The Yale Law School and Harvard School of Government graduate was recognized by former President Bill Clinton while an undergraduate at UCLA for founding a mentoring program for women of color in L.A., where she grew up, the daughter of Indian immigrants, who worked hard to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman, who lives in Oakland, returns to the Bay Area this week for book events including \u003ca href=\"http://www.zvents.com/santa_cruz_ca/events/show/313575883-book-reading-and-conversation-with-saru-jayaraman-behind-the-kitchen-door\">tonight at UC Santa Cruz\u003c/a> and tomorrow night at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5136481354#\">Disposable Film Festival's Just Food Dinner Screening in San Francisco\u003c/a>, with more Bay Area dates slated for later this spring. ROC-United's Sekou Luke will discuss the book and accompanying \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZEUwvIHdSs\">video\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/332523\">San Francisco Food and Farm Film Festival\u003c/a> on Saturday, March 30. While back East last week Jayaraman talked via phone to Bay Area Bites about her recipe for change and the concept of sustainable labor practices along with sustainable food. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/beyond-kitchen-door600.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/beyond-kitchen-door600.jpg\" alt=\"Behind The Kitchen Door. By Saru Jayaraman\" width=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58679\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was the catalyst for the book?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt's really a call to action to everyone who eats out about what's really happening behind the kitchen door in many restaurants around the country. People want to eat ethically -- look at the impact brought about by books like \u003ca href=\"http://michaelpollan.com/\">Michael Pollan\u003c/a>'s \u003cem>The Omnivore's Dilemma\u003c/em> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/12/still-a-fast-food-nation-eric-schlosser-reflects-on-10-years-later.html\">Eric Schlosser\u003c/a>'s \u003cem>Fast Food Nation\u003c/em>. Consumers spoke up and restaurants changed their menus. We're seeking the same thing for restaurant workers in terms of working conditions and wages. It's not enough for diners to care about the food they eat and how the animals were treated. It's important to care about the well-being of the people who cook and serve the food too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What don't diners know about restaurant workers?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSince 1996, the national minimum wage for tipped workers has been frozen at $2.13 an hour. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.restaurant.org/\">National Restaurant Association\u003c/a> has done a good job lobbying to keep the minimum wage for tipped restaurant workers low, and they want diners to stay in the dark on this score, it's a very purposeful move on their part. For many Americans restaurants are their second kitchens; as a culture, we eat out more than any other country, and many of us celebrate significant milestones, like birthdays and anniversaries, in restaurants. And yet most diners really have no idea about the working conditions for these employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few diners know that most restaurant employees around the country don't get paid sick leave and since they can't afford to take time off work, they come to work sick, which isn't good for their health or that of the people they're cooking for and serving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The racial segregation in restaurants is real and plays out across the country and restricts opportunities for advancement for many people of color. Our research shows that generally speaking, lighter-skinned employees work in the front of the house and darker skinned workers are relegated behind the kitchen door or in less prominent roles. This situation is very stark in places like Miami, where light-skinned employees work as waiters, brown-skinned Latino employees work as bussers and runners, and hidden in the back are the darkest employees, typically Haitians working as dishwashers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 213px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/sarah_male-worker.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/sarah_male-worker.png\" alt=\"Photo: Courtesy ROC-United\" width=\"213\" height=\"208\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58682\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Courtesy ROC-United\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How does California and the Bay Area measure up on restaurant workers' rights?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCalifornia has a higher rate for tipped workers, its the same as for other minimum wage workers, a minimum of $8 an hour across the board. California is one of seven states that doesn't have a lower minimum wage for tipped workers. But keeping the federal rate low for tipped minimum wages has the effect of driving down wages across the country; and most states pay under $3 an hour for tipped workers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was the first city in the country to require all employers to offer \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Law-now-entitles-all-workers-in-S-F-to-paid-sick-2619269.php\">paid sick leave to their employees\u003c/a>, so this area is a leader in that regard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And several restaurants here do all the right things by their employees, including offering opportunities for advancement for its lowest paid staff members. \u003ca href=\"http://www.zaziesf.com/zazie/home.html\">Zazie\u003c/a> in San Francisco comes to mind on that front, as do \u003ca href=\"http://www.pizzaiolooakland.com/\">Pizzaiolo \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://bootandshoeservice.com/\">Boot & Shoe Service\u003c/a> in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are you optimistic that restaurant workers will get their due?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere's incredible momentum right now for our work. A number of states are passing laws that will transform the working conditions of restaurant employees. \u003ca href=\"http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/jobs/INQ_JobbingBlog_Thursday-Council-to-vote-on-paid-sick-leave-in-Philadelphia-.html\">Philadelphia\u003c/a> just passed an ordinance allowing restaurant workers to receive paid sick days, it's the largest city in the U.S. to pass such a measure. [The measure is subject to \u003ca href=\"http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/03/15/future-of-paid-sick-leave-bill-now-in-mayors-hands/\">pending mayoral approval\u003c/a>.] President Obama mentioned raising the minimum wage, including for tipped wage workers, in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/13/us-obama-speech-jobs-idUSBRE91C03K20130213\">State of the Union speech\u003c/a>. I'm confident this is our time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 397px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/8166347306_460b58b1b9.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/8166347306_460b58b1b9.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Courtesy ROC-United\" width=\"397\" height=\"392\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58684\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Courtesy ROC-United\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What can consumers do?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSpread the word about this book. Speak up when you eat out around the country. Ask restaurant employees about their working conditions, including wages and tips, and whether or not they have paid sick leave. Let the managers of restaurants you frequent know that the working conditions of restaurant employees is something you care about. If a restaurant is doing all the right things by its employees, let management know that's important to you and you'll keep supporting them for their efforts. We've created a \u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/dinersguide/\">dining guide\u003c/a> (it's also available as a smart phone ap) for consumers. Let Congress know you care; \u003ca href=\"http://signon.org/sign/tell-congress-dont-let\">sign our petition\u003c/a>. It's not enough just to tip better, though that's a nice thing to do, it's not really the point. We're trying to create industry-wide, systemic change in working conditions across the country for all restaurant employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZEUwvIHdSs]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 495px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/sarah_3-workers-image-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/sarah_3-workers-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"Behind the Kitchen Door reveals the real plight of many restaurant workers. Photo: Courtesy ROC-United\" width=\"495\" height=\"222\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58675\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Behind the Kitchen Door reveals the real plight of many restaurant workers.\u003cbr>Photo: Courtesy ROC-United\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most self-respecting, food-focused, restaurant-goers can wax on about the provenance of their poultry, chat with their local produce farmer on a regular basis, or rattle off the names of several fine-dining restaurants, the celebrity chefs who run them, and their signature dishes. Some consumers are even on friendly terms with the waitstaff and bartenders at their regular haunts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But few diners can tell you much – if anything -- about the largely invisible army of restaurant workers who make eating out possible. With 10 million members in their ranks these employees represent the largest sector of the U.S. workforce. And yet these servers, bussers, runners, cooks, and dishwashers, who are the lifeblood of many restaurants, scrape by on some of the lowest wages in America, putting food on diners' tables at the same time they struggle to make enough money to feed themselves and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up until the Twin Towers fell, \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/sarujayaraman\">Saru Jayaraman\u003c/a> had never given much thought to the lives of restaurant workers. And then the young labor lawyer got a call from a union leader representing workers from \u003ca href=\"http://nymag.com/news/9-11/10th-anniversary/windows-on-the-world/\">Windows on the World\u003c/a>, the restaurant that had graced the top of the World Trade Center. After the 9/11 tragedy some 250 workers were displaced (73 of their coworkers perished on the day) and they wanted their former boss to make good on his offer to hire them back when he opened a new restaurant. With the help of Jayaraman and one of the headwaiters from Windows on the World, Fekkak Mamdouh, the restaurant workers secured new employment for several former staffers, a victory that was covered by the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/06/nyregion/deal-reached-in-windows-on-world-dispute.html\">New York Times\u003c/a>\u003c/em>. Jayaraman cofounded the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/\">Restaurant Opportunities Centers (now ROC-United)\u003c/a> with Mamdouh, and she hasn't stopped thinking about the working conditions and wages of restaurant workers ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58677\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/saruhighres1000.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/saruhighres1000.jpg\" alt=\"The daughter of Indian immigrants, Saru Jayaraman, represents disadvantaged restaurant workers. Photo: Sekou Luke\" width=\"1000\" height=\"632\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58677\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The daughter of Indian immigrants, Saru Jayaraman, represents disadvantaged restaurant workers. Photo: Sekou Luke\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman caused quite a stir in New York City, when she and her organization went up against several prominent restaurateurs, including Mario Batali, whose \u003ca href=\"http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/del-posto-to-pay-1-15-million-to-settle-workers-suit/\">Del Posto restaurant settled for millions two lawsuits last year\u003c/a> brought by ROC-United for unfair labor practices and abusive working conditions. (Irony alert: Batali's restaurants have been lauded for their Slow Food sensibility and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2012/05/30/should-sustainability-be-a-factor-in-restaurant-food/\">sustainable practices\u003c/a>, as BAB has noted.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now the director of \u003ca href=\"http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/staff/jayaraman.shtml\">UC Berkeley's Food Labor Research Center\u003c/a>, Jayaraman has written a book, \u003ca href=\"http://thewelcometable.net/behind-the-kitchen-door/\">\u003cem>Behind the Kitchen Door\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, exposing the dirty little secret of exploited restaurant employees and the successful campaigns ROC-United has waged in securing a better work environment for these workers, many of whom are immigrants and people of color. Helping the disadvantaged is nothing new to Jayaraman: The Yale Law School and Harvard School of Government graduate was recognized by former President Bill Clinton while an undergraduate at UCLA for founding a mentoring program for women of color in L.A., where she grew up, the daughter of Indian immigrants, who worked hard to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jayaraman, who lives in Oakland, returns to the Bay Area this week for book events including \u003ca href=\"http://www.zvents.com/santa_cruz_ca/events/show/313575883-book-reading-and-conversation-with-saru-jayaraman-behind-the-kitchen-door\">tonight at UC Santa Cruz\u003c/a> and tomorrow night at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5136481354#\">Disposable Film Festival's Just Food Dinner Screening in San Francisco\u003c/a>, with more Bay Area dates slated for later this spring. ROC-United's Sekou Luke will discuss the book and accompanying \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZEUwvIHdSs\">video\u003c/a> at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/332523\">San Francisco Food and Farm Film Festival\u003c/a> on Saturday, March 30. While back East last week Jayaraman talked via phone to Bay Area Bites about her recipe for change and the concept of sustainable labor practices along with sustainable food. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/beyond-kitchen-door600.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/beyond-kitchen-door600.jpg\" alt=\"Behind The Kitchen Door. By Saru Jayaraman\" width=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58679\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was the catalyst for the book?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIt's really a call to action to everyone who eats out about what's really happening behind the kitchen door in many restaurants around the country. People want to eat ethically -- look at the impact brought about by books like \u003ca href=\"http://michaelpollan.com/\">Michael Pollan\u003c/a>'s \u003cem>The Omnivore's Dilemma\u003c/em> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/12/still-a-fast-food-nation-eric-schlosser-reflects-on-10-years-later.html\">Eric Schlosser\u003c/a>'s \u003cem>Fast Food Nation\u003c/em>. Consumers spoke up and restaurants changed their menus. We're seeking the same thing for restaurant workers in terms of working conditions and wages. It's not enough for diners to care about the food they eat and how the animals were treated. It's important to care about the well-being of the people who cook and serve the food too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What don't diners know about restaurant workers?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSince 1996, the national minimum wage for tipped workers has been frozen at $2.13 an hour. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.restaurant.org/\">National Restaurant Association\u003c/a> has done a good job lobbying to keep the minimum wage for tipped restaurant workers low, and they want diners to stay in the dark on this score, it's a very purposeful move on their part. For many Americans restaurants are their second kitchens; as a culture, we eat out more than any other country, and many of us celebrate significant milestones, like birthdays and anniversaries, in restaurants. And yet most diners really have no idea about the working conditions for these employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Few diners know that most restaurant employees around the country don't get paid sick leave and since they can't afford to take time off work, they come to work sick, which isn't good for their health or that of the people they're cooking for and serving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The racial segregation in restaurants is real and plays out across the country and restricts opportunities for advancement for many people of color. Our research shows that generally speaking, lighter-skinned employees work in the front of the house and darker skinned workers are relegated behind the kitchen door or in less prominent roles. This situation is very stark in places like Miami, where light-skinned employees work as waiters, brown-skinned Latino employees work as bussers and runners, and hidden in the back are the darkest employees, typically Haitians working as dishwashers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 213px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/sarah_male-worker.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/sarah_male-worker.png\" alt=\"Photo: Courtesy ROC-United\" width=\"213\" height=\"208\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58682\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Courtesy ROC-United\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How does California and the Bay Area measure up on restaurant workers' rights?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCalifornia has a higher rate for tipped workers, its the same as for other minimum wage workers, a minimum of $8 an hour across the board. California is one of seven states that doesn't have a lower minimum wage for tipped workers. But keeping the federal rate low for tipped minimum wages has the effect of driving down wages across the country; and most states pay under $3 an hour for tipped workers. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was the first city in the country to require all employers to offer \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Law-now-entitles-all-workers-in-S-F-to-paid-sick-2619269.php\">paid sick leave to their employees\u003c/a>, so this area is a leader in that regard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And several restaurants here do all the right things by their employees, including offering opportunities for advancement for its lowest paid staff members. \u003ca href=\"http://www.zaziesf.com/zazie/home.html\">Zazie\u003c/a> in San Francisco comes to mind on that front, as do \u003ca href=\"http://www.pizzaiolooakland.com/\">Pizzaiolo \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://bootandshoeservice.com/\">Boot & Shoe Service\u003c/a> in the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are you optimistic that restaurant workers will get their due?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nThere's incredible momentum right now for our work. A number of states are passing laws that will transform the working conditions of restaurant employees. \u003ca href=\"http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/jobs/INQ_JobbingBlog_Thursday-Council-to-vote-on-paid-sick-leave-in-Philadelphia-.html\">Philadelphia\u003c/a> just passed an ordinance allowing restaurant workers to receive paid sick days, it's the largest city in the U.S. to pass such a measure. [The measure is subject to \u003ca href=\"http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/03/15/future-of-paid-sick-leave-bill-now-in-mayors-hands/\">pending mayoral approval\u003c/a>.] President Obama mentioned raising the minimum wage, including for tipped wage workers, in his \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/13/us-obama-speech-jobs-idUSBRE91C03K20130213\">State of the Union speech\u003c/a>. I'm confident this is our time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 397px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/8166347306_460b58b1b9.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/8166347306_460b58b1b9.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Courtesy ROC-United\" width=\"397\" height=\"392\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58684\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Courtesy ROC-United\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What can consumers do?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSpread the word about this book. Speak up when you eat out around the country. Ask restaurant employees about their working conditions, including wages and tips, and whether or not they have paid sick leave. Let the managers of restaurants you frequent know that the working conditions of restaurant employees is something you care about. If a restaurant is doing all the right things by its employees, let management know that's important to you and you'll keep supporting them for their efforts. We've created a \u003ca href=\"http://rocunited.org/dinersguide/\">dining guide\u003c/a> (it's also available as a smart phone ap) for consumers. Let Congress know you care; \u003ca href=\"http://signon.org/sign/tell-congress-dont-let\">sign our petition\u003c/a>. It's not enough just to tip better, though that's a nice thing to do, it's not really the point. We're trying to create industry-wide, systemic change in working conditions across the country for all restaurant employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The provision was slipped into the legislation anonymously. It explicitly grants the U.S. Department of Agriculture the authority to override a judicial ruling stopping the planting of a genetically modified crop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the face of it, that sounds pretty bad. And when environmental and organic farming groups got wind of it earlier this month, they mounted a campaign urging voters to call and email their senators and voice their outrage over the provision, which they denounced as a \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/pressreleases/senate-passes-stopgap-spending-measure-full-of-special-interest-favors/\">giveaway\u003c/a> to genetically engineered seed companies\" and even an act of \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cornucopia.org/\">fascism.\u003c/a>\" Also dismayed was Montana Democrat Jon Tester, the Senate's lone active farmer, who had offered an amendment to strike the provision from the funding resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The provision \"tells USDA to ignore any judicial ruling regarding the planting of genetically modified crops,\" Tester \u003ca href=\"http://www.tester.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=2821\">said\u003c/a> in remarks prepared for delivery on the Senate floor last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a closer look at the language of the provision suggests it may not be granting the USDA any powers it doesn't already have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not clear that this provision radically changes the powers USDA has under the law,\" Greg Jaffe, director of the Biotechnology Project at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cspinet.org/index.html\">Center for Science in the Public Interest\u003c/a>, tells The Salt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you read the provision closely (it's on page 78, Sec. 735, of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/documents/2013/mar/house_CR.pdf\">this PDF\u003c/a>), you'll see that it authorizes the USDA to grant \"temporary\" permission for GMO crops to be planted, even if a judge has ruled that such crops were not properly approved, only while the necessary environmental reviews are completed. 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The ruling effectively banned future plantings of GMO sugar beets — which made up most of the country's crop — and raised the specter of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.fastcompany.com/1707301/monsanto-sugar-beet-battle-may-lead-sugar-shortage\">sugar shortage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So two giant biotech seed producers — Monsanto and Germany's KWS — petitioned the USDA to issue a \"partial deregulation\": Essentially, farmers \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/business/05beet.html\">got the go-ahead\u003c/a> to keep planting the beets until the USDA's environmental assessment of the crop was complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the USDA's decision infuriated environmental groups and the organic industry. 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But cut the price by 25 percent, and our thinking about whether we should buy it may change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.ajpmonline.org/webfiles/images/journals/amepre/AMEPRE_3774%5B3%5D-stamped-031913.pdf\">study\u003c/a> published in the \u003cem>American Journal of Preventive Medicine\u003c/em> concludes that rebates on healthy food purchases lead to significant changes in what people put in their grocery carts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was actually South Africa's largest insurer, Discovery, in partnership with Vitality Group, that decided to offer 10 percent and 25 percent cash-back rebates to members of its health promotion program on fruits, vegetables, non-fat dairy and other \u003ca href=\"http://www.discovery.co.za\">healthful foods\u003c/a> at one supermarket chain. 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HumanaVitality will find out when they analyze the results in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Derek Yach of the Vitality Group acknowledges that a 10 percent rebate would be better than 5 percent. As my colleague Dan Charles \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/28/169733003/how-one-man-tried-to-slim-down-big-soda-from-the-inside\">has reported\u003c/a>, Yach, a former PepsiCo vice president, and Vitality Group, are at the forefront of this movement to try to incentivize wellness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Yach says the findings of the RAND study suggest that diets can be shifted. And this, he believes, has huge implications for public policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some two-thirds of healthcare spending is linked to lifestyle diseases such as obesity, Type-2 diabetes that can be prevented or controlled by healthier diets and lifestyle. 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Photo: AFP/AFP/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/14/174302750/shanghais-dead-pigs-search-for-answers-turns-up-denials\">All Things Considered\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2013/03/20130314_atc_14.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/4569077/frank-langfitt\">Frank Langfitt\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/14/174302750/shanghais-dead-pigs-search-for-answers-turns-up-denials\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/14/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a week has passed since thousands of dead pigs were first discovered floating in a river in Shanghai, but authorities have yet to explain fully where the pigs came from or why they died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourteen of the pigs had tags in their ears identifying them as coming from Jiaxing city, in neighboring Zhejiang province. 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In addition, villagers said some farmers may have dumped pigs because of a crackdown on selling diseased pigs for human consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pork is the \u003ca href=\"http://www.earth-policy.org/plan_b_updates/2012/update102\">most popular\u003c/a> meat in China. Half the world's pigs live there, as The Salt has previously \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/02/11/171690001/pig-manure-reveals-more-reason-to-worry-about-antibiotics\">reported\u003c/a>. China's state media \u003ca href=\"http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2013-03/14/content_16308582.htm\">reported\u003c/a> this week that 46 people have been jailed in Zhejiang for selling diseased pigs. 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Photo: pratt/via Flickr\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/12/174048623/mississippi-passes-anti-bloomberg-bill\">Morning Edition:\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2013/03/20130312_me_15.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by Jeffrey Hess, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/12/174048623/mississippi-passes-anti-bloomberg-bill\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/12/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Mike and his public health edicts are having a rough ride.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, a state judge in Manhattan \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/03/11/174037195/judge-overturns-new-york-city-ban-on-big-sugary-sodas\">struck down\u003c/a> New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's rule capping soda sizes. And lawmakers in Mississippi are taking the backlash against government regulation on food marketing one step further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2013/pdf/history/SB/SB2687.xml\">bill\u003c/a> now on the governor's desk would bar counties and towns from enacting rules that require calorie counts to be posted, that cap portion sizes, or that keep toys out of kids' meals. \"The Anti-Bloomberg Bill\" garnered wide bipartisan support in both chambers of the legislature in a state where \u003ca href=\"http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-08-13/obesity-rates-states/57031440/1\">one in three adults is obese\u003c/a>, the highest rate in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is expected to be signed by Gov. Phil Bryant, a Republican. It was the subject of intense lobbying by groups including the restaurant association, the small business and beverage group, and the chicken farmers' lobby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Cashion, executive director the Mississippi Hospitality and Restaurant \u003ca href=\"http://www.msra.org\">Association\u003c/a>, says the bill is a direct reaction to Bloomberg-style government intervention in public health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you look at how menus have changed, whether it be in fast food or family dining, you are seeing more and more healthy options,\" Cashion says. \"Not because of legislative mandates or regulatory mandates, but because of consumer demand. Our industry has always been one to respond to the marketplace.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Gregory Holloway, a Democrat, ushered the popular bill through the state House. He says the goal is to create consistency in nutrition laws across the state. \"We don't want local municipalities experimenting with labeling of foods and any organic agenda. We want that authority to rest with the legislature,\" Holloway says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the measure does have detractors in Mississippi: local politicians who say it steps on an ideal Mississippians hold dear — the ability to govern themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://cityofhernando.org/administrative-services/mayor-of-hernando/\">Chip Johnson\u003c/a>, mayor of Hernando, Miss., near the Tennessee border, is no fan of a soda ban, but he doesn't like the anti-Bloomberg bill, either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernando has built biking and walking paths all over town, and has received national attention for the work. 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The ban would have covered not just sodas but a wide array of other sugar-sweetened drinks, from smoothies to coffee. (Here's a \u003ca href=\"http://www.wnyc.org/media/resources/2013/Mar/11/SugaryDrinks.pdf\">PDF of the ruling\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled the regulations last May, part of an effort to curb runaway obesity rates by encouraging people to drink less sugar-laden beverages. The New York City Board of Health approved the measure last September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tingling found that the board of health had overstepped the authority it was granted to fulfill its mission: protecting against and preventing diseases. That authority, the judge said, does not include the power to \"limit or ban a legal item under the guise of 'controlling chronic disease.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's more, Tingling noted, the regulations wouldn't have applied equally across eating establishments. For example, sugary milk products would have been exempt, as would 7-Eleven and other convenience stores, and supermarkets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those gaps in the law would have seriously limited its effectiveness, says David Just of Cornell University's \u003ca href=\"http://ben.dyson.cornell.edu/\">Center\u003c/a> for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs. He says the ban would not likely have made much of an impact on overall calorie intake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The overwhelming majority of soda is bought in grocery stores,\" he told The Salt earlier Monday. He says the ban would have targeted the occasional consumer rather than the regular consumer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And some advocates of tougher policies say the judge's ruling opens the door to new strategies — such as, perhaps, a sugar-sweetened \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/06/146481752/taxes-and-food-stamp-restrictions-proposed-to-tame-americas-sweet-tooth\">beverage tax\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The biggest problem with this measure was that it could have jeopardized the ability to introduce more comprehensive — and potentially more effective — obesity prevention policies,\" \u003ca href=\"http://psychandneuro.duke.edu/people?subpage=profile&Gurl=/aas/pn&Uil=gary\">Gary Bennett\u003c/a>, an expert on obesity, weight loss and physical activity at Duke University, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industry groups that sued to have the ban overturned expressed relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The court ruling provides a sigh of relief to New Yorkers and thousands of small businesses in New York City that would have been harmed by this arbitrary and unpopular ban,\" a spokesperson for the American Beverage Association tells The Salt in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With this ruling behind us, we look forward to collaborating with city leaders on solutions that will have a meaningful and lasting impact on the people of New York City.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say they plan to appeal the ruling, as our colleagues at \u003ca href=\"http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2013/mar/11/large-sugary-drink-ban-looms-city-retailers/\">WNYC report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This measure is part of the city's multipronged effort to combat the growing obesity epidemic,\" Michael Cardozo, corporate counsel for the city's law department, said in a statement. \"We believe the Board of Health has the legal authority — and responsibility — to tackle its leading causes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Mississippi, lawmakers are taking things one step further than Judge Tingling did in New York. 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The 1,817 people polled were surprisingly positive about these new public health laws. They backed efforts to get kids exercising more, with 88 percent saying that public school kids should be required to have 45 minutes of physical activity each day. Making fresh fruits and vegetables more affordable, and requiring restaurants to post calorie counts, also won a big majority of votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three-quarters of people said that food manufacturers and chain restaurants should be told to cut the salt content of their foods. And 76 percent of those surveyed said that banning the use of food stamps to buy soda and other sugary beverages was good policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But laws that came across as punitive were a lot less popular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than one-third of people said students should be punished for having soda or other junk foods at school. A proposal to charge a $50 insurance surcharge for obese people was also a nonstarter. People were worried about how these sorts of programs would affect their liberty and privacy, with objections such as \"government should stay out of matters like what people eat.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We clearly saw that the more coercion was involved, the more people you lost,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/michelle-mello/\">Michelle Mello\u003c/a>, a professor of law and public health at the Harvard School of Public Health, who was a co-author of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.healthaffairs.org/Media/toc/2013_03_toc.pdf\">study\u003c/a>. It was published in the March \u003cem>Health Affairs\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers were surprised to find that people with health problems like obesity and diabetes didn't object to new laws targeting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We thought that people who felt like targets would be much less likely to support them,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://peh.harvard.edu/people/morain.html\">Stephanie Morain\u003c/a>, a graduate student in ethics who co-authored the study. \"That wasn't true.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smokers were the only ones to object to programs aimed at them — perhaps, the authors say, because such programs target a behavior rather than a disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Younger people and women said they were more comfortable with the government telling them how to eat than were older white men. 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Really?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of us don't think of the U.S. as the land of the underfed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this era of the expanding waistlines, we hear far more concern about obesity than we do about hunger. But the two are more closely connected that many of us realize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new documentary, \u003cem>A Place at the Table\u003c/em>, peels back the curtain on the problem of food insecurity, weaving the stories of low-income Americans who struggle to put healthy food on the table, despite the fact that they have jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we've \u003ca href=\"http://m.npr.org/news/Health/160623735\">reported\u003c/a>, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that about about 50 million Americans fall into this category of \"food insecure\" — meaning they don't always have the resources to buy the food they need. 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No pollination, no fruit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farmers who grow these crops often \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/02/14/146872577/why-california-almonds-need-north-dakota-flowers-and-a-few-billion-bees\">rely on honeybees\u003c/a> to do the job. But scientists are now \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/02/27/science.1230200\">reporting\u003c/a> that honeybees, while convenient, are not necessarily the best pollinators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A huge collaboration of bee researchers, from more than a dozen countries, looked at how pollination happens in dozens of different crops, including strawberries, coffee, buckwheat, cherries and watermelons. As they report in the journal \u003cem>Science,\u003c/em> even when beekeepers installed plenty of hives in a field, yields usually got a boost when wild, native insects, such as bumblebees or carpenter bees, also showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The surprising message in all of this is that honeybees cannot carry the load. Honeybees need help from their cousins and relatives, the other wild bees,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.entomology.umn.edu/People/GradFaculty/Spivak/\">Marla Spivak\u003c/a>, a professor of entomology at the University of Minnesota. \"So let's do something to promote it, so that we can keep honeybees healthy and our wild bee populations healthy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, a second \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/02/27/science.1232728\">study\u003c/a>, also released in \u003cem>Science\u003c/em> this week, makes it clear that wild bees aren't having an easy time of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That study essentially follows in the century-old footsteps of \u003ca href=\"http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/25037.aspx\">Charles Robertson\u003c/a>, \"one of America's great scientists that nobody knows about,\" says Laura Burkle, an ecologist at Montana State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robertson taught biology and Greek at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Ill., and he was fascinated by the close connection between insects and flowers. He spent years in the forests around Carlinville, carefully noting which insects visited which wild flowers at what time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burkle and \u003ca href=\"http://www.biology.wustl.edu/faculty/knight/knightcv.html\">Tiffany Knight\u003c/a>, a colleague at Washington University in St. Louis, went back to Carlinville to see how much of the ecosystem that Robertson observed still exists today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the forested area around the town has been converted into fields of corn and soybeans — or suburbs. In the fragments of forest that remain, Burkle and Knight found all of the flowering plants that Robertson recorded in his notes a century ago. Of the 109 species of bees that Robertson saw, though, just over half seemed to have disappeared from that area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know why,\" says Burkle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One possibility might be a loss of nesting sites for these bees. But a changing climate may also play a role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bees that disappeared tended to be species that depended on just a few kinds of flowers for food. For those bees to survive, their preferred flowers have to be blooming when the bees start flying and need food. The warming trend might have thrown off that timing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57668\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/beekeepers.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/beekeepers-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"Hired beekeepers work to pollinate an almond orchard near Snelling, Calif. Wild bees play a critical role in helping honeybees pollinate crops, but they often can't survive on modern monoculture farms. 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Honeybees need help from their cousins and relatives, the other wild bees,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.entomology.umn.edu/People/GradFaculty/Spivak/\">Marla Spivak\u003c/a>, a professor of entomology at the University of Minnesota. \"So let's do something to promote it, so that we can keep honeybees healthy and our wild bee populations healthy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unfortunately, a second \u003ca href=\"http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2013/02/27/science.1232728\">study\u003c/a>, also released in \u003cem>Science\u003c/em> this week, makes it clear that wild bees aren't having an easy time of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That study essentially follows in the century-old footsteps of \u003ca href=\"http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/25037.aspx\">Charles Robertson\u003c/a>, \"one of America's great scientists that nobody knows about,\" says Laura Burkle, an ecologist at Montana State University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robertson taught biology and Greek at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Ill., and he was fascinated by the close connection between insects and flowers. He spent years in the forests around Carlinville, carefully noting which insects visited which wild flowers at what time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Burkle and \u003ca href=\"http://www.biology.wustl.edu/faculty/knight/knightcv.html\">Tiffany Knight\u003c/a>, a colleague at Washington University in St. Louis, went back to Carlinville to see how much of the ecosystem that Robertson observed still exists today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the forested area around the town has been converted into fields of corn and soybeans — or suburbs. In the fragments of forest that remain, Burkle and Knight found all of the flowering plants that Robertson recorded in his notes a century ago. Of the 109 species of bees that Robertson saw, though, just over half seemed to have disappeared from that area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't know why,\" says Burkle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One possibility might be a loss of nesting sites for these bees. But a changing climate may also play a role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bees that disappeared tended to be species that depended on just a few kinds of flowers for food. For those bees to survive, their preferred flowers have to be blooming when the bees start flying and need food. The warming trend might have thrown off that timing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_57668\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/beekeepers.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/03/beekeepers-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"Hired beekeepers work to pollinate an almond orchard near Snelling, Calif. Wild bees play a critical role in helping honeybees pollinate crops, but they often can't survive on modern monoculture farms. 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